Sentences with phrase «previous auction record for the artist»

It sold for $ 160,000, almost doubling the previous auction record for the artist of $ 88,125 set at Christie's May 18, 2001.

Benefits Supervisor Resting is poised to break the previous auction record for the artist achieved in 2008 with another portrait of the same sitter, Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, which sold for $ 33.6 million, setting a record at the time for any living artist.

The group was led by Rockwell's singular masterpiece Saying Grace, which set a new auction record for an American Painting ** and nearly tripled the previous auction record for the artist *** when it achieved $ 46,085,000 — soaring past its $ 20 million high estimate.

The picture's price tag is more than double the previous auction record for the artist.

Not exact matches

The previous record for a painting by the artist at auction was $ 40.9 million, which was set in 2009 at Christie's in Paris when a 1911 painting by the French master was offered with a similar impressive provenance, coming from the collection Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé.

That's what happened with Roy Lichtenstein's «Nurse,» which was purchased in November at Christie's for $ 95.4 million — an auction record for the artist that was 70 percent higher than the previous high two years earlier.

Christie's expects the triptych to surpass the previous world auction record for the artist set in 2008.

The price set a new auction record for the Los Angeles - based artist, whose previous high mark was achieved at Christie's New York with «See Alice Jump.»

Getty Acquires Gentileschi's Danaë for $ 30.5 million at Sotheby's The J.Paul Getty Museum has acquired Orazio Gentileschi's Danaë for more than seven times the artist's previous auction record.

In 2012, Diebenkorn's Ocean Park # 48 painted in 1971 became the most expensive picture by the artist ever auctioned when it went for $ 13.25 million at Christie's New York, dwarfing the previous record set at Christie's when an Ocean Park # 48 painted in 1980 made $ 7.69 million.

This figure was more than four times the high estimate and almost trebled the previous world auction record for the artist, set in November 2016.

Cecily Brown's monumental The Sick Leaves, an oil on linen in three parts, was the sixth record to go — the # 1,805,000 / $ 2,205,710 paid for the work passing the previous world auction record for the artist, which had stood since May 2007.

This almost doubled the previous world auction record for the artist, set in February 2014.

In November 2015, it broke the auction record for a sculpture by a woman artist (almost tripling her own previous record) when it sold for more than $ 28m.

Gunther Uecker's Spirale I, Spirale II (Doppelspirale) of 1997 realised # 2,629,000 / $ 3,212,638 and in doing so surpassed the previous world auction record for the artist set in 2015.

It sold for $ 904,000 easily surpassing the artist's previous world auction record of $ 629,200.

The artist's previous auction record was set on July 1, 2014, when «Afrosheen,» a barbershop painting executed in 2009, sold at Christie's London for # 1,314,500 including fees (approximately $ 2.2 million).

It sold for $ 691,500 breaking the artist's previous auction record of $ 574,500.

2) Willem de Kooning Untitled XXV topped the artist's previous auction record selling for $ 66,327,500 inc..

Lot 5, «Drops,» by Luc Tuymans (b. 1958) set a world auction record for the artist of $ 110,500, almost doubling his previous set at Christie's last November.

It sold for $ 151,000, greatly eclipsing the artist's previous auction record of $ 28,750.

Lot 47, «Day Pool with Three Blues (Paper Pool 7),» a 72 - by - 85 1/2 - inch colored, pressed paper pulp by David Hockney (b. 1937), sold for $ 665,750, surpassing the $ 522,378 previous world auction record for a work on paper by this artist.

Lot 60, «Words,» a 24 1/2 - inch square ink on paper mounted on canvas by Agnes Martin (b. 1912), sold for $ 291,750, surpassing the artist's previous auction record of $ 156,500 for a work on paper.

Lot 58, a large untitled 1968 sculpture by Alexander Calder sold for $ 5,831,750, breaking the previous world auction record for the artist of $ 4,185,750 set at Sotheby's November 14, 2000.

Lot 38, «Achrome,» by Piero Manzoni (1933 - 1963), sold for $ 1,015,500, breaking the artist's previous auction record when the same monochrome work of kaolin on burlap was sold for $ 914,442 at Sotheby's London Dec. 9, 1998.

Lot 44, «Golden Eye Table,» by Ettore Sottass (b. 1917), sold for $ 30,550, a world auction record for the artist, breaking his previous record of $ 24,652 set at Christie's in South Kensington last June.

A series of photographs entitled «Choosing (A Game for Two Players): Garlic,» by John Baldessari (b 1931), Lot 19, sold for $ 207,750, surpassing the artist's previous auction record for a photograph of $ 68,500.

His «Three Candles (Drei Kerzen)», a 1982 oil on canvas 49 1/4 by 59 1/2 inches sold at Sothebys for May 15, 2001 for $ 5,395,750, breaking the previous world auction record for the artist of $ 4,956,000 (see The City Review article).

It sold for $ 298,700, breaking the previous world auction record for the artist of $ 46,000 set at Sotheby's in 1993.

Lot 2, «Untitled (Cowboy), a pair of ektacolor prints, each 47 3/4 by 68 3/4 inches, by Richard Prince (b. 1949) sold for $ 269,000, surpassing the previous auction record of $ 151,000 for the artist.

Lot 27, «Celebration» a large painting by Lee Krasner, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art for $ 1,911,500, which smashed the artist's previous auction record of $ 198,400 set at Sotheby's May 14, 2003.

Lot 42, an untitled oil on canvas, 69 by 42 3/4 inches, sold for $ 1,710,750, surpassing the previous world auction record of $ 1,100,000 for this very important artist.

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As a dedicated champion of California artists, LAMA established three new world auction records for Southern California modernists: June Harwood's Untitled (from the Sliver Series)(1964)(Lot 200, est. $ 5,000 — 7,000), realized $ 33,750, exceeding the previous world auction record, also set by LAMA in February 2014; Oskar Fischinger's Space Abstraction (1966)(Lot 139, est. $ 4,000 — 6,000) brought $ 17,500, exceeding the previous world auction record also set by LAMA in October 2012; and Vasa's Group of four towers (1976)(Lot 63, est. $ 8,000 — 10,000), reached $ 37,500, nearly doubling the previous world auction record for the artist set by LAMA in March 2011.

De Wain Valentine's Blue Slab (1970)(Lot 49, est. $ 30,000 — 50,000), set a new world auction record for the Light and Space artist at $ 175,000, more than double the previous world auction record, also set by LAMA.

A monumental untitled diptych of two hexagonal canvases broke the artist's previous auction record, selling to a phone bidder for $ 161,000.

A Mary Corse prismatic painting realized $ 87,500, setting a new auction record for the artist, breaking the previous world auction record also set by LAMA.

It sold for 3.1 million pounds, more than five times its high estimate and more than doubling the artist's previous auction record of 1.4 million pounds.

The artist made headlines in February 2013 when his painting «The Architect's Home in the Ravine» sold for $ 12,000,000 at a London auction, breaking his previous record.

The price smashed the Italian artist's previous auction record set less than a month ago at Sotheby's in London for a black egg work.

The result was an auction record for the artist, more than doubling his previous high.

[24] On November 20, 2014, O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed (1932) sold for $ 44,405,000, more than three times the previous world auction record for any female artist.

This beats his own previous record for the highest auction price achieved for a work by a living artist, namely the $ 33.1 million paid for his abstract painting, Abstraktes Bild, in 2012.

A 9 1/2 - foot - high painting consisting of black pigment on canvas, Black Fire I doubled the artist's previous auction record of $ 43.8 million - for Onement VI (1953)- achieved at Sotheby's New York in May 2013.

Other highlights included Lynette Yiadom Boakye's The Hours Behind You, 2011, which set a new record for the artist after it sold for $ 1.58 million, nearly four times its high estimate; Roy Lichtenstein's Female Head, 1977, which netted $ 24.5 million; and a Laura Owens work, which shattered her previous auction record of $ 336,500, securing $ 1.75 million.

Basquait is the lone African American artist whose works have garnered eight figures at auction and last week he joined the $ 100 million club when an untitled 1982 skull painting sold at Sotheby's for $ 110.5 million, nearly twice his previous record.